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The Political Economy of Polytheism : The Indian Versus the Greco-Roman Religions

Basuchoudhary, Atin; Ferrero, Mario; Lubin, Timothy - 2020

While most ancient polytheistic religions died out under the impact of monotheism, Hinduism stands out as a lively exception. Why was the Indian variety of polytheism more resilient than the Greek and Roman variety? This paper—the first to subject classical Hinduism to modern economic...

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Chapter 21. Religion, Culture, and Development

Aldashev, Gani; Platteau, Jean-Philippe - In: Handbook of the economics of art and culture : volume 2, (pp. 587-631). 2014

role of religion in human societies from a development economics perspective. We start by reviewing the contributions that … consider religious beliefs as exogenously given and try to understand their effects on individual economic behavior, both … directly and through the effect of religion on institutions. Next, we summarize the literature that considers adherence to and …

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Philanthropy and Law in South Asia : Recent Developments in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka

Sidel, Mark - 2014

domestic donations, regulation of special sectors and issues (such as microcredit organizations, foreign donations, and other …

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India's State-Owned Enterprises

Agarwal, Ruchir; Arbatli, Elif C.; Fisher, Lesley; Han, … - 2022

India’s recently announced privatization strategy can facilitate a change in the composition of the public sector balance sheet toward high-return public sector investments in infrastructure and human capital where there is a clear role for government, leaving commercially viable companies for...

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A Typology of Organisations in the Indian Social Sector

Pandey, Aruna; Nandy, Rusha; Merchant, Kushagra - 2022

The Indian social sector is one of the largest and growing social economies across the world. However, there is lack of understanding of the variety of organisations in this sector as the existing typologies of social sector organisations are not suitable to understand the Indian social sector....

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Migrant Adolescent Girls in Urban Slums India : Aspirations, Opportunities and Challenges

Agarwal, Siddharth; Jones, Eleri; Verma, Shabnam - 2017

Background: Many adolescents grow-up with inadequate access to opportunities facing challenges and risks. This study focuses on recently migrant adolescent girls in India’s fast growing urban slum population for whom multiple vulnerabilities intersect, including gender, poverty and migrant...

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Propaganda and Politics in Developing Countries : Evidence from India

Blakeslee, David S. - 2015

This paper provides evidence for the effects of propaganda in inducing voters to support political parties espousing ideologies of ethno-religious nationalism. Prior to the 1991 Indian national elections, the leader of the Hindu-nationalist BJP party undertook a campaign across northern India to...

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Determinants of the Quality of Life of Elderly during Demographic Transitions of Population Giants : China and India

Ghosh, Dona - 2016

The paper addresses the Quality of Life (QoL) of elderly people during demographic transitions of population giants. Focusing on India and China, this study analyses nature of data of aged people and compares the determining factors of QoL of elderly people of both nations. Using Global Survey...

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Socio-economic status of women Beedi workers in Bundelkhand region of Uttar Prasesh : an empirical analysis

Ansari, Mohd Shamim; Raj, Aparna - In: UTMS journal of economics / University of Tourism and … 6 (2015) 1, pp. 53-66

The central idea of this paper is to explore link between socio-economic positions of women working in unorganized sector with special reference to beedi rolling. In India Beedi making is an age old industry and one of the largest job providers for women in the unorganized sector. Women are...

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Voting in hiring committees : which "almost" rule is optimal?

Baharad, Eyal; Danziger, Leif - 2018

We determine the scoring rule that is most likely to select a high-ability candidate. A major result is that neither the widely used plurality rule nor the inverse-plurality rule are ever optimal, and that the Borda rule is hardly ever optimal. Furthermore, we show that only the...

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